Hi, This patch updates the mangle action representation: Patch 1) Undo bitwise NOT operation on the mangle mask (coming from tc pedit userspace). Patch 2) mangle value &= mask from the front-end side. Patch 3) adjust offset, length and coalesce consecutive actions. Patch 4) add payload mangling for netfilter. After this patchset: * Offsets do not need to be on the 32-bits boundaries anymore. This patchset adds front-end code to adjust the offset and length coming from the tc pedit representation, so drivers get an exact header field offset and length. * The front-end coalesces consecutive pedit actions into one single word, so drivers can mangle IPv6 and ethernet address fields in one single go. On the driver side, diffstat -t shows that drivers code to deal with payload mangling gets simplified: INSERTED,DELETED,MODIFIED,FILENAME 46,116,0,drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_tc_flower.c (-70 LOC) 12,28,0,drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_tc_flower.h (-16 LOC) 30,60,0,drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_tc.c (-30 LOC) 89,111,0,drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/flower/action.c (-22 LOC) While, on the front-end side the balance is the following: 122,21,0,net/sched/cls_api.c (+101 LOC) Please, apply. P.S: This patchset comes after the "netfilter: payload mangling offload support" series, although it has been heavily reworked. Pablo Neira Ayuso (4): net: flow_offload: flip mangle action mask net: flow_offload: bitwise AND on mangle action value field net: flow_offload: mangle action at byte level netfilter: nft_payload: packet mangling offload support .../net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_tc_flower.c | 163 +++++------------ .../net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_tc_flower.h | 40 ++-- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_tc.c | 90 +++------ drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/flower/action.c | 201 +++++++++------------ include/net/flow_offload.h | 7 +- net/netfilter/nft_payload.c | 72 ++++++++ net/sched/cls_api.c | 142 +++++++++++++-- 7 files changed, 376 insertions(+), 339 deletions(-) -- 2.11.0